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April 24, 2025: A long overdue honor for the 6888 Postal Battalion; From flood to fruit

By Ryan Warner
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Lyons resident Glen Delman, left, and Adrean Kirk, who leads the Lyons Community Farm Project
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Lyons resident Glen Delman, left, and Adrean Kirk, who leads the Lyons Community Farm Project, at the center of the Labyrinth. It’s part of a large revitalization effort that includes a new orchard along the flood plain of the St. Vrain River, which ran over its banks in 2013, inundating a huge swath of the town.

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April 24, 2025: A long overdue honor for the 6888 Postal Battalion; From flood to fruit

In World War II, an all women of color battalion solved an enormous backlog of mail between the homefront and the battlefront. Now, they're finally getting recognition with a Congressional Gold Medal. Then, land ravaged by a flash flood in 2013 becomes a budding fruit orchard in Lyons to give back to the community. Plus, training to fight wildfires from the air, the decades-long effort to bring clean water to southern Colorado, and a furniture bank furnishes new starts.

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